I Got Together With the Fake Heiress - Chapter 79

The content of the movie was remarkable. As the highest-rated film of the National Day season, the plot was very engaging. The parts meant to be funny were genuinely hilarious, and the emotional scenes could bring tears to people’s eyes.

Of course, this was how most people felt. Wen Yunqing was not deeply moved, merely watched the plot seriously, and felt only a slight sense of contemplation.

After leaving the cinema, Wen Yunqing couldn’t help but stretch. Sitting for two hours straight meant she needed to move around properly.

“Let’s go, we’re going to pick up Mom at the beauty salon,” Wen Yunqing looked at the time on her wristwatch. “We should arrive at five o’clock.”

Relying on the driver’s exquisite skill, Wen Yunqing and Wen Yimeng arrived at the beauty salon ten minutes earlier than anticipated. Just as they stepped into the entrance of the salon, two receptionists came forward to greet them.

“We are here to find someone named Han, who is having a full-body treatment here today,” Wen Yunqing said.

Hearing that they were looking for someone, the smiles on the two employees’ faces did not change at all. “Excuse me, what is the relationship between the two of you and Ms. Han?”

“Do I not look enough like my mother?” Wen Yunqing touched her chin. “Can’t you tell?”

“Of course not. We just needed to confirm,” the receptionist said with a smile. “Ms. Han’s session will be over in five minutes. Would the two of you mind waiting here first?”

“Alright, thank you for the trouble.” Wen Yunqing held Wen Yimeng’s hand and sat down on a nearby sofa. While waiting, she observed the layout of the beauty salon.

Wen Yunqing squeezed her girlfriend’s hand. “Look closely at the layout here.”

“Hmm?” Wen Yimeng looked at her, confused. “Is there something wrong with the layout here?”

“Nothing wrong, I’m just giving you a spontaneous test. Observe carefully and see if you notice anything,” Wen Yunqing said with a smile.

When this beauty salon was designed, they likely hired professionals. Both the location and the internal layout had certain considerations.

Wen Yimeng frowned slightly as she looked, outlining a rough floor plan in her mind, and then started searching her memory. She hadn’t learned much about Feng Shui layouts, only three simple categories.

First, she ruled out the negative Yin gathering layout. That left the wealth gathering layout and the vital energy nurturing layout. Both were quite close to the nature of a beauty salon, making it difficult to judge.

“Hmm…” After observing for three minutes, Wen Yimeng was still puzzled. “It should be wealth gathering?”

Wen Yunqing raised an eyebrow. “Are you sure? I’ll give you a hint: there’s a very obvious difference between wealth gathering and vital energy nurturing. Look again.”

“Then it must be the vital energy nurturing layout!” Wen Yimeng used the process of elimination to confirm her final answer.

Wen Yunqing smiled and shook her head. “Look in that direction, observe carefully…”

“Where is your boss? Quickly bring your boss out! What kind of broken beauty salon is this? We did a free trial service here the day before yesterday, and as a result, we went back and got redness and swelling! Now she’s lying in the hospital! Are you not going to take responsibility?”

A sharp voice interrupted Wen Yunqing’s words, instantly drawing the attention of most people in the front hall.

“Madam, please calm down first. We can sit down and communicate slowly about anything that happened.” Seeing that the situation was clearly hostile, a manager-level person quickly rushed over.

“I’m warning you, don’t touch me! I’m recording a video! I can post it at any time!” The person who arrived was a woman in her thirties. She held her phone in her right hand and kept waving her left hand. Judging by her clothes, her family background should be slightly above average.

“Madam, we have no other intention. We just want to communicate with you properly,” the manager said. “We have been running this free trial service for five or six years, and no one who has tried it has ever had a problem. Could there be some kind of misunderstanding?”

“What misunderstanding? My sister’s face is swollen, and the doctor said it’s some kind of fungal infection!” The woman looked unapproachable and directly rejected the manager’s suggestion. “I want you to give me an explanation right here. If I leave with you, who knows if I’ll be able to come out properly!”

Just as the woman was “defending the rights” of her sister, Mother Wen, having completed all her treatments, walked out led by the beautician, curiously turning her gaze towards the entrance.

“Mom.” Wen Yimeng raised and waved her hand when she saw her mother emerge.

Mother Wen sat down on a single sofa nearby and asked with some curiosity, “What happened? Did something happen?”

Wen Yimeng shook her head. “We don’t know either. From what she’s saying, it seems there’s a problem with her sister’s face. Her sister had a free trial service here the day before yesterday, so she came knocking for an explanation.”

“A free trial service?” Mother Wen frowned slightly. “I come to this beauty salon often. The prices are more expensive than regular salons, but the service and products are impeccable. There shouldn’t be any problem, right?”

“If the beauty salon itself has no issues, then only two possibilities remain,” Wen Yunqing said, looking at the noisy scene at the entrance. “Either this is a misunderstanding, and the woman is wrongly accusing the beauty salon, or someone wants to target this beauty salon.”

“How could something like that happen?” Mother Wen watched as the tug-of-war started at the entrance, and the smile on her face faded considerably. “I think the latter is more likely. This beauty salon has a good reputation and great business. Many competitors are jealous of it.”

“Mom, why do you say that?” Wen Yimeng was somewhat confused. “It could also be a misunderstanding.”

Mother Wen smiled and shook her head. “The employees here all look willing to communicate properly. If there were genuinely a problem, why wouldn’t the woman allow any opportunity for communication? She’s just causing a scene at the entrance, directly blocking the main door.”

Wen Yunqing couldn’t help but nod when she heard this. “I agree with Mom’s thought. After all, if it were a genuine case of being wronged, she should just be asking for money. She wouldn’t be rejecting communication like this.”

Wen Yimeng was still slightly confused. She still felt that there could be exceptions to everything, as there are many people who resort to throwing a fit, crying, and making a scene.

Seeing that they had been pulling back and forth for five minutes without resolving anything, Mother Wen became tired of watching the show and planned to leave with her two daughters through another door.

Just as the three of them stood up from the sofa, the sound of police sirens rang out at the beauty salon’s entrance. Soon, people in police uniforms came in and quickly brought the situation under control.

“The beauty salon called the police. That was the correct choice,” Mother Wen commented.

“Wait, it looks like more than one group of police officers arrived,” Wen Yimeng said. About fifteen seconds later, two more police cars drove up, and six or seven more officers got out.

Two waves of police? Did both sides call the police?

Mother Wen suddenly became curious about how things would unfold and simply sat back down to watch the show. Looking around, there were quite a few people doing the same thing as Mother Wen. Most of them were members of this beauty salon.

The reason they stayed to watch was not entirely out of curiosity; they were also assessing how reliable the beauty salon was. If they couldn’t even handle a person deliberately causing trouble, they might have to consider changing to another salon.

The two groups of police were also confused upon meeting. The first group was local police from the nearby branch. Since the other party was unfamiliar, they meticulously checked the other side’s identification and discovered they were police officers from the neighboring province.

When Wen Yunqing saw the faces of the second group of police, she instinctively frowned. Wasn’t the leader one of the people from the An City Criminal Investigation Brigade? He should be a subordinate of Shen Ling. Why was he handling a case across provinces?

The detective from An City briefly learned about the situation, then pulled out a special search warrant. “I received orders from my superior to conduct a search of this beauty salon. From now on, everyone in the beauty salon is requested to cooperate with the police work. You may leave only after undergoing some simple questioning.”

Hearing that they were being implicitly detained, many people became unhappy and regretted inwardly. They wished they hadn’t stayed to watch the excitement.

The location of Wen Yunqing and the other two was quite close to the entrance, and they were quickly noticed by the police from An City. The leading officer, in particular, was visibly stunned when he saw Wen Yunqing.

Seeing the leading officer walking towards her, Wen Yunqing had a bad premonition. She had kept her involvement with the Special Affairs Department and her assistance with police cases a secret from her mother. If her cover was blown now, things would likely go badly.

“Vice Captain He, long time no see,” Wen Yunqing chose to greet him first to avoid any minor trouble. “Has something happened here?”

Vice Captain He blinked, quickly grasping Wen Yunqing’s meaning. “Ah, Student Wen. Nothing major, just here to conduct some investigations. Would you mind cooperating?”

“Of course,” Wen Yunqing said with a smile. “However, we only arrived about ten minutes ago and only saw a minor farce.”

Vice Captain He nodded and, for the sake of formality, asked, “Have the three of you noticed anything strange in this beauty salon?”

Wen Yunqing and Wen Yimeng immediately said no. Mother Wen thought carefully and cooperated by speaking up. “Hmm, personally, I feel this place is quite similar to the beauty salons in An City. This is a national chain, and the staff are all uniformly trained. The techniques are very consistent.”

“Alright, thank you for your cooperation. You may leave on your own,” Vice Captain He jotted down a few notes in his small book, considering the investigation complete.

Mother Wen did not want to get involved in police work. Hearing that they could leave, she quickly led Wen Yunqing and Wen Yimeng away.

Only after leaving the beauty salon did Mother Wen ask, “How do you know that police officer?”

“Oh, that? Ruihua had many safety training sessions and inspections before. Vice Captain He was in charge of our class at the time, so we had some contact,” Wen Yunqing concealed most of the truth, transforming her previous assistance with a case into mere safety training.

Mother Wen nodded. She was willing to believe her daughter’s words, but at the same time, she subtly noticed a few things that weren’t quite right, such as Vice Captain He’s overly polite tone.

However, none of that was important. Since her daughter wasn’t saying anything, she decided to pretend she knew nothing.